, 1887-12-08
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES

Last week the Northern Pacific
made a sale of 1000 barrels Of flour
for the San Francisco market. and
1000 barrels for the China trade.
Philadelphia Record: There are
more vessels on the stocks in Oregon,
Waehingtiug Territory ani Puget
Sound than III all New England,
The kittitas LocaIizer reports that
the regular price for cattle there, on
the hoof, is S3 per loo pounds, winch
Is not bad when a 2-ycar-Old weighs
LOO pounds
Clarke county claims a cherry tree
with q record OF 1900 pounds of
fruit IN one season. Walla Walia
has an apple tree which yielded 1,200
pounds of fruit this season.
TIE Boston Journal thinks it
would be worth while to elect prac
teal newspaper man to the presi-
dencY, for the purpose of showing
h0w a presidents message ought to
be written.
Portland is getting up a big ceIe-
bration of the completion of the o.
and {, Railroad Seventy-two rep
resentatiye men Of California viii
visit that city, as delegates, and take
part IL the demonstration.
J. TreadweII, who, with Senator
Jones. of Nevada, and others, Is
owner Of the Treadwell gold mine,
on Douglass Island. Alaska, reports
that the Treadwcl! company is dOub
ling lis plant by adding 12O more
stamps, which viii be completed and
III working order by spriLg. For
months past 400 men have been dig
| gipg 4 big ditch and running TIM
mel for the company.
Governor SwiDefoId in his annual
report sets forth that the population
OF Alaska Is now 39,40O, Of which
number $4,000 are civilized. The
taxable property is estimated at So
$4,000 The mineral Industries are
a scource OF great wealth, one mine
on Douglas island turning out $780,
600 in gold bullion per month. Rich
discoveries of gold are reported in
other sections of the country Al
aska fisheries turned out over $780,
900 last year This does not include
the seal fisheries
Harvey W. Scott, editor Of the ore
gOni0H, while referring to the ques-
ton of the removal of the capital
from Olympia, said: The people of
this territory are not, think, pre-
pared to remove the capital and do
not believe the people at large desire
It removed. AS question of policy
it is not advisable so long as this
is territory. The geographical cen
tre of state or territory is not al
ways the most convenient and the
latter is presumably the leading reas-
on why some towns are now maxim
an effort to have the capital changed u
He was also asked if, in his opinion,
the crosse earnings tax law should be
repealed. Il do not think that any
such law can be framed SO as TO
please the Oregon people" he replied,
''and L presume on question of tax
alton there would not likely be much
difference between them and the peo-
pie of Washington Territory"
The Yakima Farmer says: There
is now a good deal of talk about a
railway from North Yakima up the
Ahtanum, over the Cispus pass to the
Pacific seaboard- The pass is 1000
feet lower than any other in the @ as
cade range Such line would prob
ably give US direct rail communica-
with Gray's Harbor, and the main
line and feeders would tap Teledo,
kalama, Winlock, Chehalis, Centra-
liza, Olympia, Skookum Bay and Port
Townsend The vast forests of pine,
fir, spruce, ash, maple. oak and the
immense coal fields of the region
west of the Cascades. would thus be
made accessible to the markets of the
world and be the means of bringing
millions of dollars to the present set
tiers and largely increasing popula-
ton" One of the principal wheat
shippers of Walla Walla thinks that
the great bulk of grain from that
section will soon be coming to Port
Townsend Bay by rail.